“…Contributing to previous research (Bowen-Reid & Harrell, 2002;R. Clark & Anderson, 2001;Fontana & McLaughlin, 1998;Kohlmann, Weidner, & Messina, 1996;Myers, Bastien, & Miles, 1983;Vitaliano et al, 1995;Vogele & Steptoe, 1992), the findings from this investigation indicated that the relationship of coping resources to diastolic blood pressure reactivity varies as a function of subjective stressfulness. That is, under conditions of high stress, there appeared to be a cost associated with the use of problem-focused coping and, under conditions of low stress, the use of emotion-focused coping resources was related to more adaptive physiological changes.…”